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Meaning of deader

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

deader

adjective

Definitions

  1. No longer living.

    Example: All of my grandparents are dead.

  2. Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.

  3. (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.

    Example: He is dead to me.

  4. Doomed; marked for death (literally or as a hyperbole).

    Example: "You come back here this instant! Oh, you're dead, mister!"

noun

Definitions

  1. One who is deceased, or will shortly become so.

    Example: I could tell he was a deader by the way his eyes were glazed over; there was no life left in those eyes.